Bai Delai stood here for a few minutes when a bartender who was soliciting customers came out and asked him if he wanted to sell them drinks or if he wanted to go into the restaurant to have a drink.
Baidelai took the wine load in, rested, and said, "I want to sell wine, and I also want to eat wine." He also asked how much he can get from selling wine for a pot, and how much he has to pay for drinking wine.
The bartender was smart and didn't answer directly. He only called the shop owner to negotiate the price with him. The owner of the shop was a man with a tall nose. He picked up a pot of wine, unscrewed the lid and smelled it. It seemed that it was not right, so he took a spoon to sift it out and tasted it. Then he frowned and said: This is inferior grain wine.
Bai Delai snatched the spoon that contained some wine, licked it with his tongue, and said: Don't talk nonsense, this is genuine grain wine. If you don’t want it, there will always be a restaurant that does.
Afterwards, Bai Delai picked up the wine and went out. In fact, the store owner knew that this was genuine wine, so he described it as "inferior" mainly to lower the price. Unexpectedly, the visitor was not fooled, and he regretted a little, so he found an explanation: There must be negotiation when doing business. We don't have much wine in the store. Since you picked it, we will always buy wine. As long as the price is moderate, We will consider purchasing. Besides, wines are divided into upper, middle and lower grades, and people are divided into different grades. Even if the wine is inferior, some people will drink it.
Bai Delai stopped and glanced at the shop owner: If you say it's bad wine, we won't talk about it anymore.
Do you want to make a price? There will always be people drinking wine. The shop owner bargained with Bai Delai for a while, and finally settled on 130 taels of silver, and sold all the ten jugs of wine to the restaurant. Bai Delai took the money, said that he had lost money, and made a request, that is, he could order some meat dishes and have a drink here for free. The shop owner felt that this request was not too much, so he agreed.
At this time, Bai De went to the wine table and asked the shop owner to invite the bartender to order pig ears, beef gizzards, lamb chops, and dog legs. He also added a three-fresh soup and a bowl of side dishes, and ordered a two-pound bag. A bottle of wine and drink by yourself. Because he was very hungry, he jumped on him, tilted his head and drank heavily. Soon he had finished the whole table of food and two kilograms of wine, leaving the table in a mess. His cheeks were flushed, and he seemed to understand a little bit in his heart. He just said "hmm" a few times and kept telling himself: Can't talk, can't talk. Of course he knew better than to tell anyone about stealing wine from the Xinghua Village Winery.
After hearing this, the diners in the store made fun of them: What can't be talked about? Is it the thing you did with a woman that you can't talk about? The shop owner rushed over and said, "You have eaten and drank. Go back and talk about the things you can't talk about!" Bai Delai touched the silver he had placed on his body and it was still well hidden, so he stood up and walked down the stairs with one foot high and one foot low. He left the restaurant, still shouting nervously: "You can't talk... you can't talk..."
What can't be said? People walking in the night market on the street murmured in their hearts. One look at the drunk guy and they understood. They talked to each other: he is a drunkard and talks nonsense when he drinks too much. Slowly Bai Delai walked farther and farther, and his figure disappeared into the darkness without light. A dirt road that curved into the fields bumped against his footsteps. He didn't know how far he had walked or where he had gone. . He originally wanted to go back to Liu Yuzhen's house on the hillside to sleep, but now he was confused. He lost his footing and fell on a mound. He rolled over and landed next to a ditch below. On the ridge, he snored asleep with his head pillowed on a weed.
The rat spirit sees all this clearly. Is it thinking about how to let the owner of Xinghua Village Winery catch this wine thief and entrust it to the owner and employees of the winery in his dream? They were all drunk, and it could enter Hong Qiaoyun's dreamland and tell her the current location of the wine thief, but she was not asleep yet and was worried about the theft of the Xinghua Village wine shop. If a few hours later, when the rooster crows, the rat spirit is invaded by Yang Qi, it will be unable to enter anyone's dream, let alone communicate with others in their dreams.
At this moment, a figure swayed towards this side from a distance. The mouse spirit took a look and knew that Hu Chuanxin, an employee of Xinghua Village Winery who made wine, was on his way back. He wanted to tell him about Baide Lai's theft of wine, but he couldn't. It became wise in its haste and quickly sneaked into Bai Delai's dream. The drunken Bai Delai was physically and mentally weak, with weak yang energy and strong yin energy. This was the right time for the rat spirit to enter his dream. The rat spirit quickly showed up in his dream to persuade him to drink, and Bai Delai shouted in a daze: "One more drink, let's do it..."
Hu Chuanxin, who happened to be passing by here, heard it but saw no one. Because Bai Delai was lying down and it was dark at night, he couldn't see clearly. He thought it was a ghost, so he picked up his feet and ran in the direction of Xinghua Village Wine Shop, running until he was out of breath. , I just arrived at the wine shop and saw that the lights were still on. I saw Hong Qiaoyun packing things in the wine storage room with a sad face, as if something had happened.
Hu Chuanxin asked for clues, and thought that the cry he heard on the way was related to wine, so he told Hong Qiaoyun. Hong Qiaoyun was suspicious: Does this have anything to do with the wine shop being stolen? She asked Hu Chuanxin carefully: "Did you see the person clearly?"
I was a little scared to be alone and didn't look. Hu Chuanxin emphasized his tone: I felt someone was shouting on the ridge beside a ditch.
It is better to believe that it exists than to believe that it does not exist. Hong Qiaoyun came to the room where Wu Renyi and his friends were drinking again. She pinched Wu Renyi's nose again. He woke up and was about to speak when Hong Qiaoyun said that the wine in the wine storage room had been stolen.
What? Wu Renyi turned over and sat up and asked.
If you don’t believe me, go check it out. Hong Qiaoyun led him to the wine storage room and complained that he shouldn't drink too much and get drunk. He also cursed, which made him a little annoyed. Hu Chuanxin also came and asked him to go over and pinch the drunken employees awake. Then he said angrily: We must catch that wine thief.
They had already disappeared without a trace. Hong Qiaoyun retorted dissatisfiedly and taunted: If I hadn't been awake, that wine thief would have stolen all of you drunk people.
After a while, all nine employees woke up and roughly understood what had happened. They all looked at Wu Renyi's face silently. Wu Renyi said: That's it, let's drink all the wine in one meal. ! It's time to break up. He paused and raised his voice again, "Listen, now light a torch with me and go after the wine thief."
Where to chase? Hong Qiaoyun raised issues that employees must face immediately.
Chase based on feeling. Wu Renyi looked at the employees and yelled fiercely: If you can't chase and catch the wine thief, you won't be able to return to the winery, and you won't be able to get paid.
It seemed that the theft was all caused by the employees. Everyone was dissatisfied with Wu Renyi's words, but seeing that he was angry, no one spoke back. Wu Renyi said to Hu Chuanxin again: "You have not drank, and you are a sensible person. Just lead them to light up the torches and hunt down the wine thieves!"
Hu Chuan didn't feel confident, and he didn't know if there was really a person there where he heard the cry halfway. I wonder if that was a wine thief? Whether it's still there now may be just an illusion of his. Since the wine shop owner asked him to lead a team to hunt down the thief who might be a fictitious thief, how could he disobey the order? He had no choice but to light a torch and lead the team to set off, followed by Wu Renyi and his wife.
Where to go? Of course, first go to the place where he was frightened and particularly concerned about. After leaving the winery and walking a long way through the fields, there was a mixed smell of wine in the air, like the vomit of a drunk person. As we approached the ditch, we heard someone shouting drunken nonsense like "Cheers" over and over again.
